Digital Librarian
With over 50 subjects, Digital Librarian is a selection of web resources put together by a Librarian to aid anyone use the web to find information relevant to research in specific areas.
Google Scholar
"Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research."
Research Guides from Baker Library, Harvard Business School
These guides put together by the Baker Library, Harvard Business School contain resources in various subjects around business (local and global) in today's world including Agribusiness and World Statistics.
Wall Street Executive Library
Useful websites, magazines, journals, search engines on subjects covering both U.S. and Canadian magazines, journals, periodicals. Direct links to a long list of News Stand magazines, Business, as well as Computer & Technology magazines online.
Journals and Articles
AGORA (ACCESS TO GLOBAL ONLINE RESEARCH AGRICULTURE):
The AGORA initiative was set up by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) in conjunction with other publishing bodies to put together a collection of journals in food and environmental science, agriculture and other related subjects. It is aimed at empowering students and academics via scholarly resources.
Armed Conflict Database
Armed Conflict Database, a frequently updated source of information on armed conflicts worldwide. You can generate reports and download data as well as browse through the yearly analyses and fact sheets online.
Bioline International
Bioline grants access to peer-reviewed journals in bioscience published in ‘developing’ nations ( Brazil, Cuba, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, Venezuela, and Zimbabwe etc).
BLDS: British Library for Development Studies at IDS – Institute of Development Studies
For about forty (40) years, one million (1,000, 000) items (e-books and e-journals), BLDS has one of the largest research collections in Europe. It records that more than half of its collection resonate from developing countries, most of which are unavailable in other libraries in European libraries. Some of their resources can be accessed remotely for free.
Bridge: Development and Gender:
This database contains white papers, policy papers, case studies and scholarly articles on gender issues from a global perspective.
Chemistry Central
Chemistry Central offers open access to peer-reviewed journals in chemical sciences. It is operated by BioMed Central and owned by Springer Science+Business Media, committed to the free and widespread dissemination of chemical research.
CIA Factbook
The CIA Factbook is an excellent resource for global statistics on economic issues.
CommsDesign
In a user-friendly manner, CommsDesign has a number of articles for communications design and engineering.
Directory of Open Access Journals (Recommended)
As at March 2012, DOAJ recorded 7588 journals and 777295 articles. All of these articles in various subjects are open access and can be obtained for free.
DIVA
This is a resource portal that offers, student theses, conference papers and journal articles in various subjects .
Electronic Journals and Magazines on the Middle East
This is a directory listing resources (articles and journals) in Middle East Studies from history and civilization to gender-related studies.
Electronic Journals Library
Provided by the University Library of Regensburg and University Library of the Technical University of Munich, EJL offers a central repository of journals and other scholarly material, a number of which are free accessible (marked )
Electronic Literature Directory
The Electronic Literature Directory (ELD) is a collection of literary works, descriptions, and keywords. It is aimed at bringing both author and reader to a common platform where both the work and consequently appreciation is encouraged through forums and discussions. Submissions of entries as well as reviews are free.
ERIC/AE Full Text Internet Library
Here, one can gain access to material (books, reports, articles, and papers) available on the net centred around education and learning theory.
FindArticles.com
All known as the Resource Library, this is an archive of published articles that can be searched for free. It also includes access to some journals which provide free full text access. It has to be noted that the articles here are more general than academic but contains a few journal titles.
GDNET
“GDNet has compiled a comprehensive listing of the different initiatives which provide researchers in low and middle income countries with free access to academic journals. It is a listing of collections of free online journals related to the social sciences. It also provides a list of websites which provide links to journals for which full text access is restricted to subscribers, but non-subscribers can access other journal information such as the table of contents or abstracts of articles.”
Harvard Business Review
Perfect for resources in business research including case studies, articles, and books.
Highwire (Stanford University)
This enables access to a huge database of scholarly articles in medicine and medical sciences.
Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE)
“Online Access to Research in the Environment (OARE), an international public-private consortium coordinated by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Yale University, and leading science and technology publishers, enables developing countries to gain access to one of the world's largest collections of environmental science research.”
Over 4,150 peer reviewed titles (as of 10/2011) owned and published by over 350 prestigious publishing houses and scholarly societies are now available in more than 100 low income countries. Research is provided in a wide range of disciplines.
The Business Publications Search Engine
Directory of over 200 free subscriptions to Business & Trade Publications.
QUESTIA
Tagged as ‘Trusted Online Research’, Questia has one of the world’s largest repository of books and articles. This comes highly recommended because aside from having all of its content freely accessible, it claims that its title are exclusive and it has content suitable for research at all levels (undergraduate, postgraduate and professional).
RAND: Objective Analysis, Effective Solutions
A research site for students seeking reliable analysis on various subjects of interest. It focuses on a wide range of topics and is quite insightful.
USAID Development Partner Resources
A searchable database listing USAID programme and technical documents, with many available to download.
World Bank Documents
Collection of World Bank reports, documents and working papers.
World Development Reports
This is an invaluable guide to the economic, social and environmental state of the world produced by the World Bank.
E-books and E-libraries
Bibliomania
Specifically rich in classic literature and verses, Bibliomania has free online literature with more than 2000 titles in classic texts, reviews including literature book notes, author biographies, book summaries and reference books, study guides, and reference material (Dictionaries, Quotations).
Book Boon
Bookboon.com originated in Denmark in 1988 and since its inception, has focused on publishing books for students and business professionals. In 2005, it shifted its focus to publishing only 100% free ebooks for its market. Since this leap, Bookboon has experienced huge rates of adoption with over 1500 book titles in its database and over 10 million downloads in a year.
In 2005 the company made a strategic leap and became the first book publishing company in the world to focus 100% on free eBooks. Ever since, the company has been aiming to set new standards in the world of modern publishing based on the readers’ needs. Its aim is to remain at the forefront of publishing while satisfying its target market.
Check this site for textbooks written by eligible professors used both as primary and secondary literature and is designed to usher in a group of well-informed professionals.
Education and Information Technology Digital Library
This e-solution is a digital library for resources in Education and Information Technology and is aimed at facilitating "learning, discovery and innovation by connecting scholarly research on Educational Technology/E-Learning with learning opportunities."
Escholarship Editions
The University of California e-Book collection contains more than two thousand (2000) book titles in a range of topics including ‘art, science, history, music, religion and fiction’. A number of titles are freely open to the public.
The Free Library
"Since 2003, The Free Library has offered free, full-text versions of classic literary works from hundreds of celebrated authors, whose biographies, images, and famous quotations can also be found on the site. Recently, The Free Library has been expanded to include a massive collection of periodicals from hundreds of leading publications covering Business and Industry, Communications, Entertainment, Health, Humanities, Law, Government, Politics, Recreation and Leisure, Science and Technology, and Social Sciences. This collection includes millions of articles dating back to 1984 as well as newly-published articles that are added to the site daily."
VIRGO
By the University of Virginia Library, VIRGO is a repository of resources (books, articles, digital material, digital images) made searchable and easy to access in various subjects.
World Digital Library
"The World Digital Library (WDL) makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from countries and cultures around the world."
Dissertation and Theses
Digital Library and Archives
Digital Library and Archives allows searching for citations and abstracts of over 6,700 theses and dissertations. Free full-text access is provided for over 4,500 of these items.
Directory of History Dissertations
The Directory contains 27,640 dissertations that were completed or are currently in progress at 200 academic departments in Canada and the U.S."
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
"NDLTD provides access to citations from thousands of digital dissertations and theses that are in PDF format. We support electronic publishing and open access to scholarship in order to enhance the sharing of knowledge worldwide"
Open Theses
OpenThesis is a free repository of theses, dissertations, and other academic documents, coupled with powerful search, organization, and collaboration tools.
Proquest Open Dissertations and Theses
"PQDT Open provides the full text of open access dissertations and theses free of charge. The authors of these dissertations and theses have opted to publish as open access and make their research available for free on the open Web."
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